Wait! Why do you want to do this? Does using the Yoshifab adaptor spin it the opposite way? EDIT: Yes, of course it does. Mounted on the back of the head in stock form, and Volvo block dizzys do go clockwise.

If so,you can't even just flip the disk as the two sensors are offset from each other. Better to get a 24+1 disk for it and just run that decoder?

When my Yoshifab adaptors arrive I'm going to have a FreeEMS-specific disk made up and write a decoder for it, it'll work better in every respect than any of the stock ones or current naive aftermarket ones.

When my Yoshifab adaptors arrive I'm going to have a FreeEMS-specific disk made up and write a decoder for it

If I'd bought a Yoshifab adapter instead of bonding a Volvo distributor to a Hall effect CAS I'd probably do the same. I've asked around about whether or not the optical CAS and Hall effect CAS internal assemblies are interchangeable within the cast housings. If they were I could swap my Hall effect assembly for an optical one and use the new disc. Perhaps unsurprisingly, because the units are so interchangeable no one seems to have ever tried swapping the sensors between housings.

So I think my options are

To buy an optical CAS, get lucky and have the sensors fit in the Hall effect housing, on ebay looks like £80.

To buy Yoshifab's adapter and an optical CAS which will come in hopefully a little under £300, making it the most expensive thing on the car.

To use the Hall effect CAS, and have to get code written that no one else will probably ever need.

If the Mazda dizzies are anything to go by the castings are different and you can't chuck an optical into the hall one (IIRC).

If you go semi sequential/wasted spark you can just use the crank. If you don't want to tolerate low RPM limitations until the code gets some rewrite, you can modify the pattern with an angle grinder to reduce the count to 20 - 1 or something like that quite easily. Though I spun the B234F in my 240 sedan to nearly 6k on the 60-2 setup tonight. Dog fooding it so that if it's an issue I will be highly motivated to sort it out for everyone :-)

80 quid sounds like too much for something you should be able to get for near free from a junk yard or from a forum or something. I need to go looking for Mitsu CAS units for when my yoshi adaptors arrive. I'm in no rush though, and I haven't shipped Josh back his ECU, either, so eye for an eye, it's all fair :-)

Yep, wrote a thread here that photobucket has dinked a little bit. I could rewrite with new links.

Fred wrote:

80 quid sounds like too much for something you should be able to get for near free from a junk yard or from a forum or something.

Yeah. A lot of scrapyards here seemed to disappear ~10 years ago though. The price of scrap steel went up. Brownfield land was getting snapped up for crappy townhouses and tenements. Then around 2009 I think 'cash for clunkers' shipped thousands of cars abroad that would have trickled into scrapyards over the following few years and kept them going.

I could probably scrounge one up cheaper on a forum though, yeah.

Fred wrote:

Honestly, writing the decoder wouldn't be too difficult, probably. If you're up for it, I can do code review until it looks right.

Forgot about that! Thanks. FWIW there is a firefox plugin that fixes photosuckit - I must have installed it in this instance because it worked fine.

Not much, copy the existing one into a new file called similar and insert the word "Backward" into the name somehow that makes sense, then change the sync logic around to suit your data above (that I didn't review, yet). It's probably half an hour's work for me, but maybe a bit more figuring stuff out for you. Give it a shot and link your attempt and we'll go from there.

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